Birmingham City (A) 2-3 Leicester - Post-Match Thread

[Jonezy]

Always the nervy endings with this club. Should have been out of sight long ago. Some sublime play and some sloppy finishing. 

 

KDH and Mavididi today. 

[Tielemans63]

The one slight negative is that the last two games should have both been 4-0 and were far closer than they should have been.

[Basildon Fox]

Most enjoyable game of the season. Mavadidi taking the piss out of the Birmingham fans the highlight.

 

Nervy for the last 20 but should have been out of sight by then.

 

When it clicks it is great to watch. Well done to Birmingham too. Gave us a game and never gave up.

[brookfox]

Average of 2.5pts per game is madness! Pretty sure if you gave Enzo some water you’d have a cracking piss up 🍷

[SecretPro]

BORING. SACK THE MANAGER.

[Spudulike]

The future's bright. 

[Dr The Singh]

3 minutes ago, Phube said:

Souttar came in with 2/3 massive headers at the end! 
 

That was a great sub by Enzo.

Man of the match for me, without those minutes it would be a draw

[SlaneyLCFC]

Glad we won but feels like a loss due to the last 15 minutes 😂🤦‍♂️

[joeybside]

Phew. Urrrghhh. Ahhhhh. Meh. Ooooo. And other noises 

[KP Fox]

3 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Most of the first half, brilliant. Mavadidi was excellent, as was Fatawu. Second half never had control of the game, turned over possession far too often in midfield…. 
 

Got a job done, that’s all that matters. They’re a ****ing horrible side, and Tom Cannon is crap.

Nice to see that you have given young Cannon a chance! 

[Blueman1967]

Like Millwall game, not a 3 - 2 game, but got to put more chances away, still another good win away from home.

[Nolucklcfc]

Phew. We make life so hard for ourselves. Should have been about 8! Brilliant win 

[NaijaFox]

1 hour ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Why? Best defence in the league. Only really concede scrappy goals (which all teams do) 

Statistics and darn lies. 

Seriously though our defending in our final third isn’t great, but tactically we essentially compensate and ‘defend’ well by dominating possession. The less the opposition has the ball, the less they can harm us.

Edited 18 December 2023 by NaijaFox

[Simonb]

Negatives

 

should've been 5 or 6 at least. 

Couple of sloppy goals

Daka and jj crap, fatawu bar the 2 assists was wasteful

 

Positives.

 

Another 3 points

Widened the gap

Kdh looks back on it

Mav was brilliant

At points some of the best football I've seen us play in years.

 

Although daka frustrates the life outta me  we look better with him in the team

 

 

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, SlaneyLCFC said:

Glad we won but feels like a loss due to the last 15 minutes 😂🤦‍♂️

Strange. I’m delighted, and seen some great stuff tonight.. yes let’s cut out the stupid mistakes at the back, but 3 points and a good performance 

[daddylonglegs]

The scary thing about the rest of the campaign is that we’re not clicking properly in the final third yet.

 

We’re going to score 6+ goals in a few games this season, I’m sure of it.
 

We score so many goals and yet our decision making in the final third is the absolute pitts 😂

[jmono84]

We gotta stop pissing about around our own box when we get a comfortable lead. Piss about up their end and try and score another goal. It’s frustrating how casual we get when we could put the game well and truly to bed.

 

Good solid win and Fantastic resilience at the end but I we should make it a lot lot easier on ourselves.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Any 3 points is a great 3 points 

 

especially away from home

 

Up the Foxes

[copunk]

One of the best games I've seen KDH have for us, the lad was absolutely superb 

[hejammy]

Just shows how much more we have to give. Just a few better decisions and we will completely blow teams away. We're getting there. Cut out the bad decisions at the top and switching off at the back and we could possibly not only break the points record but also the goals scored. 

[FosseSpark]

Defence is where we haven't made any squad changes and it shows. They are just as fragile as they were in 2022/23 to quick passing and movement.

 

Winks, KDH, Fatawu, Mavididi were immense, Hermansen strong. Everyone else was pretty average. 

 

Worth noting we are playing without either of our first choice strikers, our first choice left back and a guy who has scored 5 goals this season in McAteer. We've managed that quite well over past few games but need to get back to full strength for the 3 or 4 games before afcon kicks in. 

 

We are going to need Doyle, McAteer, Yunus, Vardy etc to step when our african players are absent. Fatawu could become a superstar at the afcon if given a chance.

 

 A bit of 'they have such a deep squad' creeping in to commentary. They are forgetting how difficult it is to ship 15 players and create a new team in close season. Saints and Leeds certainly haven't managed it and they didn't lose players as good as maddison and barnes

[Staff]

Bringing Choudhury on for Mavididi meant we had to move players into different positions so we lost momentum. Hopefully get McAteer and Yunus back soon because were lacking depth/options out wide at the minute 

[Pita]

Trued hard to throw away tonight’s game. Far to many wasted chances. 

[MancFox24]

5 minutes ago, Beachyboy said:

I was impressed with Birmingham, we showed some real moments of quality, its a work in progress this team, but I love the passion that's there again.

Really? I thought they were the worst team we've played this year. Tactically they were all over the place and that defence of theirs looked very bad. Their goalscorer looked good but as a team I thought they weren't good at all

[WigstonWanderer]

Flattering scoreline for Birmingham. Should have been a much bigger win with excellent chances falling to Fatawu, Daka, Casedai and probably others that I’ve forgotten.

 

They did give us some problems, mostly from set pieces but also from periods of intense pressure. We do seem to panic sometimes when pressed hard and our passing game falls apart just when needed.

 

Very exciting match to watch with some  liquid smooth football played at pace by us. Another good win, KDH MOTM for me.